Music Memory


Years later when I stumble into a café in Finland,
I halt by the coffee station and grab a fistful of
my mother’s sleeve, Listen to the song! I shout.
What? – she jumps – Is going on? And I cannot
explain why my head is turned to the ceiling fan –
eyes wide open, letting the showers of an internal
floodgate lost to time, a river of evenings, occupy.
A wire in the brain connecting to a retired station.
I seek refuge in her arms hoping she’ll feel it
through my chest and manifest the channel into an
auditory Oh…Oh…Oh! But the melody holds its
presentation and the world surrounding, beckons.

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